parturient
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Surgeons Watson recalled that on rare occasions when a parturient woman was bleeding to death from a Caesarean section, her life had been saved by transfusion with blood drained from her abdomen.
From Time Magazine Archive
However, if we would really adopt the opinion that the increasing hospitalization of parturient women is not an improvement, is it a development which depends at all on us obstetricians, or the medical profession?
From Time Magazine Archive
Poor economic conditions with insufficient housing explain the conditions in Germany, because there the parturient woman may have her baby in a good public hospital without any charge.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its blind stirrings, its apparently aimless seeking hither and thither, are but the driving of an instinct to be done with its parturient function toward these principles of future life and power.
From Among My Books First Series by James Russell Lowell
A bisischial diameter at the outlet of the parturient canal of 7 centimetres or less is an indication for section; so are certain tumours that block the delivery of the child.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by Austin ?Malley
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